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New York Post
6 days ago
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- New York Post
YES Network broadcast blasts Yankees' ‘inexcusable' baserunning after Braves turn wild double play
Access the Yankees beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees. Try it free Braves superstar Ronald Acuña Jr. made a show-stopping defensive play on Friday — but that didn't stop the Yankees' broadcast team from calling out the Bronx Bombers' baserunning. In the top of the third inning, Acuña caught a fly ball from Yankees outfielder Cody Bellinger and nailed a Jorbit Vivas tagging from second to third base on a perfect, no-hop throw, preventing New York from putting runners on first and third with Aaron Judge up next to hit. Advertisement It was a tough gaffe in New York's 7-3 loss in their first game back from the All-Star break. Yankees announcers Michael Kay and Joe Girardi reacted to the play on YES Network, citing the missed opportunity for the team, which couldn't manage to score in the inning after the double play. 4 New York Yankees second baseman Jorbit Vivas (90) is thrown out at third base after a fly ball caught by Atlanta Braves right fielder Ronald Acuna Jr. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect Advertisement 'That can't happen. Those are little things that cost you a chance to have Aaron Judge hit with 1st and 3rd,' Girardi, the former Yankees skipper, said. 'You just took the bat out of Aaron Judge's hands,' Kay said. 'First of all, you're not running hard to third, then you don't slide. As you said, perfect word, inexcusable.' 'The Yankees have to tighten up their baserunning. This has been going on for a month now,' Kay added. Advertisement 4 Ronald Acuña Jr. is a five-time MLB All-Star. MLB Photos via Getty Images Acuña, who was named an All-Star for the fifth time in his career this week, is just two seasons removed from winning National League MVP for a Braves team that won 104 games in 2023. The outfielder tore his ACL in May of the 2024 season and underwent season-ending surgery, returning to action on May 23 of this year — hitting a homer on the first pitch he saw. This year, he's attempting to return to form, so far at 12 home runs in 22 RBIs through just 45 games in the first half of this season. Advertisement 4 Joe Girardi is introduced during the New York Yankees Old Timers' Day prior to the game against the Colorado Rockies at Yankee Stadium on August 24, 2024, in New York, New York. Getty Images 4 Michael Kay at the 2023 Father Of The Year Awards held at The Sheraton New York Times Square on June 15, 2023 in New York, New York. WWD via Getty Images So far, he has a 1.025 OPS and is among the league leaders in hitting with a .323 batting average on the year.
New York Post
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
‘Did that really happen?' 20 years later, the summer of Aaron Small still seems like a fairy tale
Access the Yankees beat like never before Don't miss Greg Joyce's text messages from The Bronx and beyond — he's giving Sports+ subscribers the inside buzz on the Yankees. Sign Up Now He walked down the sidewalk, through the gate and the concourses and the aisle, unbothered, unnoticed. Aaron Small was back in The Bronx last July, holding a ticket on the first base side, sitting inside Yankee Stadium for the first time since making the most recent of his five Old Timers' Day appearances a dozen years earlier. Advertisement The former journeyman pitcher still stands out, standing 6-foot-5, now two decades removed from casting an 11-week spell on his unimaginable jaunt to 10-0. The fans once enraptured by Small surrounded him for hours, failing to spot the folk hero until he left his seat. 'Not a single person recognized me except when we were leaving the Stadium, people were going, 'Look, it's John Cena,' ' Small said. 'I get that all the time. … The friends of mine that were with me, they start doing the John Cena [face wave].''
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Dr. Ron Taylor, a 2-time World Series winner and former Blue Jays team physician, dies at 87
FILE - The 1969 New York Mets, pose for a 10th anniversary reunion photo at New York's Shea Stadium Saturday, July 14, 1979. Present at the Old Timers' Day were, top row, from left: Ken Boswell, Ron Taylor; Ron Swoboda, Ed Kranepool, Don Cardwell, Jim McAndrew, and Gary Gentry. Second row: Art Shamsky, Donn Clendenon, Jack DiLauro, J.C. Martin, Tommie Agee and Ed Charles. Third row: Cleon Jones, Joe Pinatano, Rube Walker, Jerry Grote, and Al Weis. (AP Photo/Bob Schutz,File) NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Ron Taylor, a World Series champion pitcher with both the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets who later became the Toronto Blue Jays' team physician, died Monday. He was 87. Taylor died in Toronto after a long illness, the Mets said in a statement. Advertisement A native of Toronto and a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, Taylor was part of the 1964 Cardinals' and 1969 Mets' championship teams. The right-hander pitched for the Mets from 1967-71. In 1969, he led the Miracle Mets with 59 appearances and 13 saves to go with a 9-4 record and 2.72 ERA. 'Ron was the only guy on our staff with postseason experience,' former Mets teammate Art Shamsky said. 'He had won a championship with the Cardinals in 1964 and brought a winning mentality. We don't win the title without Ron Taylor.' Taylor pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings in the 1969 World Series and saved a 2-1 victory in Game 2 against Baltimore when he retired Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson with two runners on in the bottom of the ninth. Advertisement Against Atlanta in the 1969 National League Championship Series, Taylor saved Game 1 and earned the win in Game 2. Taylor's big league career spanned 11 seasons, beginning with Cleveland in 1962 and ending with San Diego in 1972. He also pitched for Houston from 1965-66 and finished 45-43 with a 3.93 ERA and 74 saves in 491 games, including 17 starts. After baseball he enrolled in medical school and spent about three decades as the Blue Jays' team physician. ___ AP MLB:
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Reggie Jackson says Judge's home run wasn't 469 feet
Reggie Jackson says Judge's home run wasn't 469 feet originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Aaron Judge hit a baseball Tuesday night that looked like it needed clearance from air traffic control. Statcast measured the New York Yankees captain's homer at 469 feet. Advertisement Yankees Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson respectfully — and very vocally — disagrees. New York Yankees Hall of Fame slugger looks out of the dugout during the 2019 Old Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium. © Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images 'I know what 500 feet feels like,' Jackson told YES Network's Meredith Marakovits before Wednesday night's game. He went on to explain if it hadn't hit the building where the Kansas City Royals house their Hall of Fame, that ball would have definitely cleared 500 feet. And when Mr. October says a home run felt like 500 feet, you at least got to take it into consideration. This is a man who hit baseballs into light towers. Who treated 1970s pitchers like they were throwing Wiffle balls. Reggie knows moonshots — and this one apparently made his inner seismograph twitch. Advertisement The blast in question came off the bat at 114.9 mph and crashed off the facade of the Royals Hall of Fame in left-center. Statcast gave it the 469-foot label, but the ball may have lost a few feet of travel time thanks to a premature collision with a wall, which was sporting some patching on it Wednesday. Judge didn't seem bothered. He flipped his bat, put his head down, and headed back to work. The Yankees slugger has a habit of humbling Statcast's tape measure. Tuesday's launch may have been one of those. Reggie seemed convinced. And honestly, we're not betting against the man who once hit a ball completely out of Tiger Stadium. Statcast is great and we love the information, but Reggie knows home runs. So, we're going to go with the Yankees legend on this one. Advertisement Related: Marcus Stroman Takes Surprising Turn As Yankees Face Big Decision Related: Aaron Judge's 469-Foot Blast Wasn't Even Close to Yankees Slugger's Longest This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 12, 2025, where it first appeared.
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Michael Kay goes scorched earth on Yankees fans who chanted ‘f–k Juan Soto'
Michael Kay goes scorched earth on Yankees fans who chanted 'f-k Juan Soto' Access the Yankees beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees. Try it free For Michael Kay, the Yankees-Juan Soto tension is over. Advertisement For Yankees fans, it's seemingly not. As the Yankees were on the way to a 9-7 victory over the Diamondbacks on Thursday, a 'f–k Juan Soto' chant caught on with fans throughout Yankee Stadium, although the Bombers were obviously not playing against their ex-star, who jumped over to the Mets on a $15-year, $765 million deal. On Friday, the Yankees play-by-play announcer lost it on fans for the chant on his radio show, 'The Michael Kay Show. But it was surprisingly not over a dislike of the foul language. Michael Kay during the New York Yankees Old Timers' Day on August 24, 2024 at Yankee Stadium. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images New York Mets right fielder Juan Soto (22 doubles in the sixth inning on April 4, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post 'We hear this silly banter back and forth about big brother, little brother. You know what that was yesterday, everybody?' Kay said. 'I hate to say it, and you're not gonna like it. That was little brother nonsense,' Kay ranted. 'Why are you chanting about Juan Soto? Your team is winning. And that's what you're coming up with? You kind of should be a little bit embarrassed. Advertisement 'Shame on all of you. Really, shame on all of you. It's such an awful tiny look…You are still big brother. The Mets haven't won anything. They won a bidding war for Juan Soto. They haven't won a championship since 1986. It's been 39 years since they won a title, and you're chanting bleep Juan Soto? I don't get it. Color me confused. I don't get it, and it's a bad look. It's a bad, bad look…I think it's an awful, awful look by all of you. All of you! And I would have addressed it yesterday if I actually heard it through my headphones.' The Mets (4-3) are above .500 for the first time this season after a home opener win, but they are not the 5-2 Yankees, who are off to a hot start as their torpedo bat success has been talked about at length across the league. Mets fans hold up signs for Juan Soto during the Citi Field home opener. JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST With the Amazin's, Soto has gone 6-for-25 through seven games with one home run, three RBIs and a .827 OPS, though he did have a game-ending strikeout against the Astros on Opening Day.
